oh, i thought you were talking about, like. the dark side of it all, the trauma it can leave you with i've seen it in a lot of people. felt it myself
but you mean something else, right? you mean how your values can change, because you're in a culture that's so different how when you first come here it's insane to see people naked in the street, and after a while it starts to feel normal? that kind of thing.
Both really. Obviously the trauma affects you more apparently. But the culture is a shock. I guess I'm a little more used to culture shock. Where I'm from there's a Federation of planets and culture shock in each of them is something you get used to.
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oh, i thought you were talking about, like. the dark side of it all, the trauma it can leave you with
i've seen it in a lot of people. felt it myself
but you mean something else, right? you mean how your values can change, because you're in a culture that's so different
how when you first come here it's insane to see people naked in the street, and after a while it starts to feel normal? that kind of thing.
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But I think this place is more extreme than most.
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he's big on resistance, but from the perspective of changing things here, showing people a better way
i think that's complicated. i look at it and think it's horrendous, hate how submissives are treated, hate the public punishments, hate all of that
but i don't know that it's our place to tell another culture what's better. that attitude generally leads to bad things where i'm from
but it also carries every red flag for dictatorship so maybe if we could, we should
i don't know, it's tricky. but you've dealt with other cultures before, how would you deal with something like that back home?